Ana Claudia Chacin and Clara-Sophia Daly of the Miami Herald won first place in the 2024 Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the Investigative category, which encompassed all divisions. The Herald’s series of stories looked into child sexual abuse and a gymnastics coach.

APSE contest winners will be honored at the 2025 APSE Summer Conference banquet at the Courtyard Minneapolis Downtown on June 28. Registration for the conference is now open. 

Chacin and Daly will receive a plaque. The second- through 10th-place finishers will receive frameable certificates.                                                                                    

Sports editors submitted 23 entries in the category. Contest chair Paul Barrett and APSE officers Dan Spears, Perryn Keys and Tony Maluso prepared the entries. 

Contest results: Sections, digital, video | Writing and photography

In February, judges at the APSE Winter Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and remote judges around the country selected a top 10, with each judge ranking the entries in order from 1 to 10. The final 10 were given to a second judging group, which ranked the entries 1 to 10 in the same fashion. The final rankings are determined by tallying the ballots. Associated Press Photo Manager Mike Stewart helped choose finalists in the photo categories.

The top 10 are listed, with first-place votes in parentheses, along with links to the winning entries.

The contest is open to APSE members. Click here to join.

  1. Miami Herald, Ana Claudia Chacin and Clara-Sophia Daly: Gymnastics coach & child sexual abuse (2)  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
  2. The Arizona Republic, Jason Wolf: College football human smuggling (4)  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
  3. The Washington Post, Will Hobson: NFL concussion settlement  1 | 2 | 3 | 4
  4. Southern California News Group, Scott M. Reid: Swimming coach and athlete abuse  1 | 2 | 3 | 4
  5. USA Today Sports, Chris Quintana and Kenny Jacoby: Post-grad football’s pitfalls  1 | 2 | 3
  6. The San Francisco Chronicle, staff: San Jose State volleyball  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
  7. ESPN.com, Mark Fainaru-Wada: The NBA and Paul Kagame
  8. Newsday, Jim Baumbach: Why horses are dying at Belmont Park 
  9. NJ Advance Media, Matt Stanmyre: Charter school athletics controversy  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
  10. Wisconsin State Journal, Sean Davis: WIAA takes teams out of football playoffs

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